The information reaching our new desk according to The
Trent is that Mr. Gordon Obua, former Chief Security Officer
to President Goodluck Jonathan has passed away a few hours
ago, July 20, 2015 in the custody of Department of Security
Services (DSS) in its Abuja Headquarters where he had been
detained since Thursday, July 16, 2015 on the orders of
President Muhammadu Buhari.
Sources who have been monitoring the situation have confirmed
Obua’s passing to The Trent. He was arrested on Thursday
when he honoured an invitation by the DSS and had been in
solitary confinement until his death.
Obua, who was being detained by the DSS in an underground
dungeon for undisclosed reasons was being denied access to his
lawyers, family, and his doctors on the orders of the new
Director General of the DSS, Lawal Daura. The DSS (also
called SSS) serves as Nigeria’s secret police.
President Buhari appointed Lawal Daura, his kinsman from his
hometown in Katsina on July 2, as head of the DSS after firing
Ita Ekpeyong. Daura was recalled from retirement as he had
retired from the service of the DSS when he reached the
mandatory age of 60 according to the Civil Service rules of
Nigeria.
Our sources say Obua’s remains are still in the custody of the
DSS at the time of filing this report. He was held without
charges filed against him.
On July 18, 2015, Onochie Onwuegbuna, the lead partner
at Zeran Legal, has issued a press statement on behalf of
Obua’s family complaining about the conditions in which his
client was being detained and said that his client was being
witch-hunted by the Buhari government. He said his client was
diabetic and hypertensive and was being denied his drugs as
well as food and water by the DSS
Mr. Gordon Obua is pictured with his wife, Dr. (Mrs) Merit Obua
at the birthday thanksgiving reception for their triplets (in
their arms) recently. (Photo Provided by Merit Obua)
Obua, until his death, was an employee of the DSS and his
employer knew about his medical conditions but decided, in
impunity, to deny him access to his medicines and doctor, his
lawyer alleged.
Onwuegbuna said that the Buhari government had ‘marked’ his
client, and other individuals who held offices in Jonathan’s
administration and the arrest of his client was a scheme, “in
other to implicate them by all means for phantom crimes or
offences”.
A non-governmental organisation, the Society for Global
Justice had issued a statement on Obua’s continued detention
at the DSS, on Saturday calling for the release of the former
Chief Security Officer.
Executive director of the group, Mr. Marcus Ogabe confirmed
that Obua was detained at the SSS headquarters in Abuja
since Thursday.
The group also said the continued detention of Obua is
indicative of “the tyrannical, autocratic and dictatorship
tendency of the Muhammadu Buhari administration”.
“Obua has been detained since last Thursday at the
headquarters of the State Security Services in Abuja without
charge.
“He was also not told the reason for which he is being
detained, the group said

Until I see a reliable source, this remains a beer parlour concoction.

Still at that his death will still answer for his crimes

midolian:
Until I see a reliable source, this remains a beer parlour concoction.

and what next if it happens to be true!

baralatie:

and what next if it happens to be true!

what next if not to mourn him? or do u know how to bring him back?